Miharu: Sorry it took so long for the chapter...-facedesk-
Elsword: Miharu are you okay?
Miharu: Iie...itai...itai...
Elsword: What'd she say?
Eve: She said "No...It hurts...It hurts..."
Aisha: She gets a bit delusional and out of her mind when she sick...
Rena: She hasn't been able to realy write this past week..
Miharu: ITAI!
Raven:...She's...in pretty bad shape...
Miharu: Ugghhh...gomenasai...mina...
Eve: She said "Sorry Everyone."
Chung: Does she speak Japanese when she's sick always?
Eve: Most of the time...
Chung:...I hope you get better...
Miharu: Arigatou...
Rena:...So a new character is introduced?
Miharu: ...Hai...
Raven: She doesn't look to well..
Miharu: Itai...
Elsword: Uh, I think she's going to pass out.
Aisha: Grab her then!
Miharu: -passes out-
Yasha: -catches her-
Aisha: You're always in the cut aren't you?
Yasha: Yep.
The Death's Breeze...
It was silence, eerily silent inside the shrine; we walked through with caution, the hollow sounding of the wind coming from underground, a moldy smell which made my nose cringe in disgust. Though In the mix of it I knew I could smell the mix in of blood, demon and human. My heels made small clacks against the old stone floor of the shrine, the breeze becoming a strong and unsettling feeling to my spirit. I held back a shudder that wanted to go through my body.
"Something isn't right here…it's to quiet, what do you think Yasha?" I spoke as I stopped momentarily and looked forward at the darkness that seemed like a void up ahead, when I heard no response I turned around to see Yasha wasn't there, I looked upward to see if he had taken flight but to no avail he wasn't there either. I calmed myself and crossed my arms over my chest, why would he have gone off by his self without saying something?
"Don't hurt her!"
My eyes widened at the voice, it sounded like…my father's voice. I ran deeper into the shrine as the yells became louder and louder, my heart just telling me to go forward though my mind and instinct said it was illogical that they could even be alive. I didn't want to believe that, I wanted to believe that they were still alive and hadn't died that day. The environment around me swirled in distortion the deeper I went, soon I noticed that the yelling became like a scratched record and kept repeating certain phrases. Though it was to late when I realized it, I was surrounded by a void and nothing but a hollow sound around me.
"You really are an idiot." I heard the dark giggling of a female, I knew who this was, I really had let myself get deceived by her, I stared in the direction of the voice, seeing the silhouette of the Fox-demon come into view, she swayed slightly and her ears twitched slightly as she gave of a sly smirk equal to that of a cat. She rested a hand on her hip as she stared at me with triumph.
"Caught you…"
Her voice was empty, as if she was saying an incantation. I felt binded and my back arched and I heard a sickening crack come from inside of me as my body began to twist in inhumanely ways. "AAGGGGH!" I yelled in agony as she just cackled enjoying my pain, I stared into her eyes, my own brimming with a white trying to force a pass out. Though I wanted the pain to stop I made sure I didn't fall unconscious. I reached my hands down, both of them sweating from my fighting against my body's will. I reached down to my holsters and pulled out my pistols gripping on the side barrel. Before she could notice, I quickly pulled them out and shot at her arm, the bullet piercing with a blazing fire igniting her shoulder.
The pain quickly stopped as she fell to the ground screaming in pain, "How dare you…" She hissed, I walked up to her and examined the wound, noticing another on her left shoulder, practically symmetrical to the one on her right, she wasn't healing immediately like I did, and dark blood began to ooze out staining her clothes. The distorted area began to fade out as she weakened in strength.
"Cheryl…The Half-Fox Demon, your powers are too great for you to be wasting them doing something like this, working for that guy. Leave him, and come with me and the others, you deserve better." I spoke quietly to her, I grabbed her from some reason, pulling her into a gentle hug calming her down, feeling the violent shaking, most likely she was trying to keep herself from falling unconscious in front of me. Seconds later I heard sniffling and the hard breathing coming from her. She was crying, I took out the band that held my hair into a ponytail, splitting it and wrapping it around her shoulders to stop the bleeding. My hair fell down and almost touched the floor by the length, it moving through the breeze as if it had a mind of its own.
"Miharu!" I heard Yasha's voice from behind me, I gently picked up Cheryl, she slowly began losing consciousness as she whimpered slightly, and I just smiled and turned towards him. He looked at me with a raised eyebrow. "Who's the girl?" I just shook my head and turned forward, seeing the way ahead there. "It's Cheryl…I managed to put some sense into her." He only blinked; he shook his head and laughed lightly. I just kept moving carrying her.
Yasha walked ahead of me, withdrawing his scythe as he moved cautiously, the shrine still seemed pretty deserted. I heard the clashing of metal in the distance, and I thought I heard a faint voice at least. Then slight laughing? "Yasha do you hear that?" He nodded. I listened with more intent. "Come on you weak ass bastards! That's all yall got?!" I bit back a giggle as I heard Chi's taunting. I ran forward carrying Cheryl until I say the moving of Chibella's cloak dancing in the wind.
"Yasha! Hold Cheryl for a moment!" I tossed Cheryl's body into the air and Yasha gracefully caught her and settled momentarily in the air as I dashed forward, I reached behind my back unsheathing Akarui and Phantom together, I dashed forward with my blade towards the horde of demons that was up ahead, I spun my hair covering one side of my body and I arched around, a sadistic like grin spread across my face as I heard the demon slayed yell in agony as Akarui petrified it's heart and slowly began to vanquish.
I moved forward slashing upwards Phantom. The blood gushing out as the demon fell backwards, my eyes began widened with bliss and excitement as I got more into the feeling of the battle. I slashed sideways at a demon coming from my side and I soon found myself surrounded, gripping onto both swords I spun around quickly once, then heavily I slashed both swords through the horde of enemies that surrounded me, raising a leg up off the ground for easier movement, a faint flush on my features and I let out heavy breaths as I calmed down slightly. When I came back to my senses Yasha and Chibella was staring at me.
"…Nice to see you Miharu….you killed all of my opponents! Idiot!" Chibella walked over to me and bonked me on the head with her fist and I let out a nervous laugh. Yasha blinked again at us and just stared with his mouth agape. "That was hot…" Me and Chi just face palmed at his words. I looked seeing ahead that we were at the end of the hallway only a door ahead, I saw Chi had some injuries to her arms and legs and most likely in other places as well.
"Chi…go back, I'll continue on ahead, Yasha go back with her and Cheryl. Okay?" Chi's eye widened, her pupil becoming small as she stared at Cheryl. I had told her about Cheryl and she scowled at the body. Nonetheless she looked at me regrettably and nodded, moving back towards the entrance. I sighed and placed a hand on my hip staring at the door. No more illusions to worry about. I stared at the stone cold door covered in slight moss, ignoring the disgusting feel; I pushed forward with my body. The door flew open and crashed to the floor, the stone crumbling.
I felt the rumbles and vibrations…tremors of something large. I lost my balance slightly as something crashed onto the ground with a deafening crash. The large room I entered began to collapse it seemed. I stared at the monstrosity seeing the rock knowing immediately I wouldn't be able to make a dent into the thing. I backed up slightly in anger. "Shit, I'm in trouble. I should've asked Yasha to stay back with me." I scowled and looked to the side, hearing the groans of the beast moving towards me, I took out my swords for some sort of defense at least. Though, I heard the sound of a single power shot. From a gun, I turned around frantically. I immediately jumped up seeing the beast crumble down to the ground almost instantly.
"Chung?! Is that you?!" I looked around searching for a hint of his armor. When I didn't see him, I looked up confused and thinking, though I had to do a double take, I saw a glint of pink in my line of sight. Going back down, I saw a girl standing there, holding her rifle up with one arm putting a extra clip into it easily. She wore a black thin dress that blew nicely in the wind of the shrine with black boots and black straps on her legs with holsters attached. She had a headset on with a mouthpiece. I stared in wonder at her. Her hair was short and pink, with dark pink large eyes. Cream colored skin and a small fragile body. She turned to look at me after she was done reloading and just stared at me. She held the sniper rifle in her arms casually.
"H-Hello?" I spoke carefully; she just stood there still staring. I got a bit impatient so I easily jumped up there, my hair pillowing out like a cloak. When I landed she looked up at me, she was a small girl, not to small but to the point where I had to look down at her slightly, a bit taller than Aisha but shorter than Elsword. She had a small mouth; she was a really pretty girl, what was a human girl like this doing out here.
"Target….Eliminated." She said quietly. She turned away and I held a hand out, "Hey! Wait!" She turned around staring at me with a blank face. It was almost scary, she was definitely a human, but her ability to mask her emotions, if she even had any, was almost enough to beat Eve's. "Are you by yourself?" She looked at me a bit longer before turning to me fully. She only nodded slowly.
"You should come with me and my crew…We could use someone with your skill to help kill off these demons." She seemed thoughtful, she stood there and the breeze blew her short hair softly. Her wide pink eyes never blinking. "I will come with you." I smiled softly and held gestured her to follow me, I'm pretty sure everyone would welcome her with open arms.
Back at camp.
When I arrived I saw everyone else had made it out here. Cheryl was being tended to; it seemed that Aisha was using some sort of recovery spell, though the expression on her face seemed of discomfort. It must've been some pretty bad emotional trauma for Aisha to help Cheryl's mind deal with. The girl walked from her position behind me and everyone turned and stared at her shocked. She actually seemed a little shorter compared to everyone else.
"Who's the girl?" Raven asked crossing his arms, his expression wasn't hard but it was observant and careful. He wanted to make sure she was no threat. "My name is Reiko." Rena took her eyes away from Cheryl and Aisha and looked into Reiko's eyes with a welcoming smile. "That's a pretty name. Mines is Rena." She nodded and bowed. "Nice to meet all of you." Eve seemed to blink at her politeness and she walked up to Reiko with a blank gaze. Eve seemed to study her for a short duration before walking away that was awfully weird. Afterwards I sat her down and we talked together, well tried to. Reiko was a really silent girl, and a professional at using guns, especially in the Rifle department. I was good but mainly with machine guns and shotguns.
Yasha sat down and Reiko seemed to get up and walk away almost instantly, Yasha didn't seem to notice, but I did. Did she not like demons? Or was it Incubus Demons that she didn't like?
"Miharu are you okay?" He looked at my eyes with concern and I had to tilt my head in confusion. Why was he so worried about me in the first place? Wasn't he a egotistical bastard with to much pride to give a two shits about anyone?
"I'm fine, why do you ask?" I leaned back and stared at him, he scowled and closed his eyes. Though there was a slight tension gone from him, I could see it slightly, though it seemed as if he tried to hide it. "No reason. Let's get ready to go back." I nodded and stood up as he did. I looked towards the tower that came from the underground portion of the shrine. "Oh, and Miharu?" I turned to him, though his gaze was fixated on the shrine. His face scrunched into a look of anger and discomfort, and slight worry.
"Don't die on me."
What the hell does he mean by that?
Miharu: ...Itai!
Reiko: Hello Everybody.
Rena: Hey Reiko! Welcome to the crazy group of adventures.
Elsword and Aisha: WE ARE NOT CRAZY!
Rena: DON'T RAISE YOUR VOICES AT ME!
Miharu: DAMATTE KUDASAI! -throws Akarui at group-
Raven:...I think its best not to piss her off when she's not feeling well..
Eve: She said Shut up.
Yasha: -grabs Akarui even though it's burning his hand- Let her Rest.
Reiko: -puts hand on Miharu's forehead-...Hot.
Miharu: Atsui...
Eve: She said hot.
Chibella and Cheryl: -kicks and pokes Miharu-...
Miharu: Nanishiteruno...?
Eve: She said "What are you doing...?"
Raven:...I really think you shouldn't do that...
Chibella and Cheryl: -keeps doing it-
Miharu: SHINU! -gets up and chases with Chainsaw-
Chibella and Cheryl: OH SHIT MADWOMAN IS AWAKE!
Eve:...She said...
Miharu: DIE!
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